What you have to realize about these clearances is, it's a "life and death matter" In many cases the regular security clearances often cover matters involving national security that reveals sources of information and that could and does put people at risk.

Then there's the SCI (secret compartmentalized information. and that is the most serious secret info that the government has bar none. It, not only reveals sources, who are undercover around the world, but military plans and operations. A leak of this information has serious and very deadly consequences not only for our sources, but for our troops as well.

A slip up here could cost the lives of an entire squad on a mission. Or endanger an entire intelligence operation, exposing all involved to enemy capture, torture and execution.

Trump is playing childish games with the lives of our service people! That is terribly intolerable to all Americans.

Republicans and Democrats alike need to remedy this immediately or there's no other choice but to suspend all operations and recall all spies and troops around the world. Obviously doing one or the other is not a reasonable choice.﻿

To my shock, horror and amazement, near the end of the video the guest tries to explain this as some sort of rational paper push, on account of the overwhelming number of checks needed to clear incoming staff because of their extraordinary number of business ties worldwide.

So that's all the consideration you deserve if you're putting your life on the line overseas? You could be sent to an excruciating death because someone in Washington needs to move paper more quickly?

I'll bet the CIA is on pins and needles over this. I'm far removed from the fray and I won't sleep well over this, knowing that the next morning news could be of some terrible international intelligence disaster. Much like the scramble to move operatives and assets out of harm's way when Valerie Plame was outed. We're on a road to destruction and Mitch and friends are holding the barn door open until all the horses have left.

While there is nothing illegal here, because the President has the power to make these appointments. He has made appointments he should not have made and that has allowed our national secrets most sensitive, to be handed over to people not either entitled or qualified to handle them.

We do not know which of these 30 people, with interests all over the world, are either compromised or might seek to ingratiate themselves, for business or financial gain, by using or releasing our top secrets.

Trump has placed America in great danger. He has endangered our CIA and FBI agents, operatives, assets and sources. Only Putin could not be more pleased. He doesn't have to capture "James Bond" because Trump is handing him over, along with the rest of the country and our Republican officials are helping him do it.

Mueller can only show us what happened behind the scenes. We still have too many people who cannot bring themselves to think rationally. Even though their numbers are not a majority, America stayed asleep at the wheel while Republicans gamed the system to manipulate the vote with gerrymandering.

Back in the 90's we were screaming about it on usenet. Where Tom Delay, speaker of the House, used his office to help Jack Abramoff rape Indian Casinos for the funds to gerrymander the "permanent Republican Majority" and it worked. I don't believe anyone will take the time to review this explanation of how it worked, but I'll post it anyway.

Hopefully some one will not only watch it but will spread it as well.:

The blue wave was actually a blue tsunami, that's what was required to overcome the Powerful Republican Gerrymander built by Tom Delay using the money raised by "Casino Jack Abramoff":

Trump lives in a world of wild and weird imaginings and hallucinations. The public is not used to having an unstable person as the President so his wild mood swings are dismissed as some sort of genius. Thus his bipolarity goes unrecognized even as disconcerting as it may be.
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Historically bipolar leaders have not only been tolerated but they have been allowed to destroy the nation's they ruled. Apparently American government isn't so modern that it can deal with a lunatic leader any better than could governments 2,000 years in the past.

You would think that by this time we would be able to quickly identify a bipolar person with a host of horrible personality disorders, and quickly shuttle him off to the funny farm where he belongs, but no, like "Little Boots" before him, he does the equivalent of sending troops to the beaches to gather seashells while the enemy regains its strength.

"Little Rocket man" has already out gamed our dear leader, Putin has and still is getting big peices out. It will be a while before all these losses show their ugly heads. But even so we can say we are in big big trouble that gets even worse every day.﻿

He is well advised to take Trump's threats seriously, it was a member of the Republican dark side who took it upon himself to go to Comet Ping Pong, armed with an assault rifle, to free the children that Hillary Clinton was rumored to be holding in the basement as a child sex trafficker. Turns out the pizza parlor doesn't have a basement. So we know Trump's base includes some very violent and very stupid people.

It sure baffles me that, because Trump is keeping secret his dealings with Putin, all that we do know says that Putin is up to no good. What that means, to anyone with two brain cells to rub together is, support for Trump; under these conditions, is support for Russia and Putin's plans.

If Mr. Trump's interaction with Putin is innocent, there's no reason the government shouldn't know about it. Only if those interactions are nefarious, would there be any reason to keep them from the government. So now his base and his party are all working for Putin and have put America last

The people we have elected to run the country for us are, instead, running it for themselves. The most important thing for them is holding onto their offices. They now put that above all else. That's why we're getting such bad results! Unless and until we find a way to make office holders more accountable to the people and less about just holding onto the office, we are going to wind up with a dictatorship. We seriously need the right to recall public officials when they advocate things that most of the nation objects to. Thus would they be required to explain themselves and not engage in things like they did with the passage of the "Patriots Act". (Google 4 it (G4i))

It has been said many times that we learn from history so we don't make the same mistake. I seriously thought voters had learned their lesson from the most recent Republican Presidents time in office Richard Nixon — Republican.

Ever heard of Watergate? The scandal that became so synonymous with the scandal that “gate” is now affixed to anything remotely scandal like.

Nixon had to resign and was only saved from prison by a pardon from his hand-picked successor. 69 government officials were charged with crimes. This includes his Chief of Staff and multiple members of his cabinet — as high level as it gets.

Of course, this was only after his original Vice President was convicted for an unrelated crime (tax evasion — but it was a settlement related to allegedly “accepting more than $100,000 in bribes”).

Ever heard of Iran-Contra? Many high-level indictments, including the Secretary of Defense, the Assistant Secretary of State, and two National Security Advisors.

Presidents Reagan and Bush claimed they didn’t know anything, though people involved said they did. I only say indictments because Bush pardoned 6 of them before the trials were done.

The presidency of Ronald Reagan in the United States was marked by multiple scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any U.S. president.

George W. Bush — Republican. Too many scandals to name. More than a dozen members of the Bush administration pleaded guilty to federal crimes. Dozens more resigned under dishonorable circumstances, including his Attorney General, White House Counsel, and other senior members of the administration.

Bush, George W. (R) - 8 yrs in office. 16 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 9 prison sentences Now it's Donald J. Trumps turn at bat, he got 63 million votes, 70 million didn't vote Only time will tell what his E.R.A average will be, but he still has 26 months left﻿ to go, he's off to a good start.

Trump has exposed our most sensitive information to the world's intelligence services.

People with business interests around the world can be compromised or squeezed and coerced by foreign governments to reveal our secrets. He made sure untrustworthy people gained access they did not deserve and were not qualified to have.

Every American Agent every cooperating source has to be worried for the lives of themselves and the lives of their families.

Trump might just as well have turned "James Bond: over to the Kremlin in chains. Have a look: